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Canada got the last hurrah at the Celebration of Light Saturday evening, closing the three-night event with a winning display. Canada was declared the winner of the event, with Brazil and China finishing second and third, respectively.

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Downtown Vancouver’s hotel market is as hot as the scorching summer of 2015. Rooms at most downtown hotels this weekend — when the Vancouver Pride Festival kicks into full gear — are commanding prices you’d normally associate with big luxurious suites. But in most cases, they are just standard rooms.

Construction will begin soon on a new gold and silver mine in northwestern British Columbia. The provincial government has issued a final operating permit for Pretium Resources’ Brucejack mine, after the project received an environmental assessment certificate and the necessary federal approvals.

Sytek Enterprises is a North Vancouver manufacturing facility where they make force sensors and screen printed electronic overlays for everything from a tachometer to a microwave keypad, to an electronic piano.

When Green party leader Elizabeth May announced her pharmacare plan this week — modest cost and massive savings — columnist Don Cayo thought it sounded too good to be true. So he looked into the numbers and was surprised by what he found.

B.C. is among the leading Canadian provinces for boosting clean technology companies, but it falls short in providing support for clean tech exports, according to a Pembina Institute report released Wednesday. “B.C. had the third largest number of policies in place (to support clean tech) but it lacks a concentrated strategy on the sector itself,” report author Penelope Comette said in an interview.

VANCOUVER — The builders of British Columbia’s first grid-scale solar power plant in Kimberley named the project SunMine owing in part to its location on a former mine site. But the operation is also finding more sun to mine, exceeding initial expectations for electricity production. SunMine is small, just over one megawatt of generating capacity, but since turning on the switch in June, the experimental facility has delivered enough electricity to BC Hydro to power about 275 homes, considerably more than expectations it would produce power for 200 homes.

A spectre is haunting Shaughnessy — the spectre of Kitsilano. Several Shaughnessy residents teamed up with realtors at a public hearing Tuesday into the proposed First Shaughnessy Heritage Conservation Area, protesting Vancouver’s plan to stop demolition of pre-1940 houses.

VICTORIA — When Ombudsman Jay Chalke was handed the job of investigating those botched firings in the health ministry this week, he offered multiple assurances to the public that his office would do its best to get to the bottom of the murky affair. “I am committed to a diligent and professional investigation into this matter,” he vowed in a statement issued by his office after a legislature committee referred the matter to him.